FBI May Have Steve Bannon Phone Call About Russia With Carter Page

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Cristina Maza
Posted with permission from Newsweek at Crooks and Liars

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/fbi-may-have-steve-bannon-phone-call-about

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The FBI likely intercepted a phone call between former Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Carter Page, experts say.

A GOP memo released by the House Intelligence Committee last week demonstrated that the FBI had been monitoring former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page both during and after he worked for the Trump campaign.

During testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in November, Page revealed that he had spoken with Bannon at a time when he is now known to have been under surveillance. Despite leaving the campaign in September 2016, Page told lawmakers that Bannon had called him shortly before Trump's inauguration in late January, asking him to cancel a television appearance he had scheduled with MSNBC.

Page later said that he also spoke with Bannon about the controversial Trump-Russia dossier, a document compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele that claims Page had met with Russian energy moguls during a trip to Russia in 2016.

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[eleny]

1. Time to frog march Bannon in for questioning

[Zoonart]

2. YUM

FBI don't play. Think honey badger.

[struggle4progress]

3. Was he or wasn't he?

Trump told WaPo Carter Page was one of his national security advisers. But later

... "Mr. Page is not an advisor and has made no contribution to the campaign," the campaign’s communications director Jason Miller said in an email to The Hill. "I've never spoken to him, and wouldn't recognize him if he were sitting next to me" ...

... And when Trump was asked about Page, he said, "I don't think I’ve ever spoken to him. I don't think I've ever met him. And he actually said he was a very low-level member of I think a committee for a short period of time. I don't think I ever met him. Now, it's possible that I walked into a room and he was sitting there, but I don't think I ever met him" ...

Carter Page struggles to explain how he could advise both Kremlin and Trump team
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 1:10 PM ET, Tue February 6, 2018
... "On the one hand, at one point you say you're an adviser to the Kremlin. Then you're an adviser to Donald Trump" ... Last fall, Page admitted that the topic of Russia "may have come up" in emails with campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to charges of making a false statement to the FBI about his contact with Russian government officials. Page, who told the Senate intelligence committee in May he had "brief interactions" with low-level Russian officials in 2013, traveled to Moscow in July 2016, shortly after Papadopoulos forwarded a request from Russian officials to meet with Trump or someone in the Trump campaign. Page denied that the Russia trip was in his capacity as a campaign adviser ...

[triron]

4. knr

[lindysalsagal]

5. End of article: mueller has a subpoena, in case stevie takes a powder

[orangecrush]

6. I hope Newsweek survives

Their coverage of the Russia investigation has been outstanding.